'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'
GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed
**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**
When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.
It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man, could Maryam be... like Lamya?
Written with deep intelligence and a fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own experiences: Musa leading his people to freedom; Allah, who is neither male nor female; and Nuh, who built an ark, just as Lamya is finally able to become the architect of her own story.
Raw and unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one's own.
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p>strong >''I''m glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it. Women will continue to be objectified in art and in popular culture, but the book sheds a generous amount of angry light on how we got here.''em>The Heraldbr>
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p>strong>A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the ''Old Masters'' to the posts of Instagram influencers./strong>/p>
p>strong>A perfect pin-up, a damsel in distress, a saintly mother, a femme fatale.../strong>/p>
p>Women''s identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history''s classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles./p>
p>In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most loved images - from those of Titian and Botticelli to Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites. She also shows us how women artists - from Berthe Morisot to Beyonce, Judy Chicago to Kara Walker - have offered us new ways of thinking about women''s identity, sexuality, race and power./p>
p>Wem>omen in the Picture /em>gives us new ways of seeing the art of the past and the familiar images of today so that we might free women from these restrictive roles and embrace the breadth of women''s vision./p>
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.' With that in mind, in his sequel to the hugely popular Six Impossible Things and Seven Pillars of Science, Gribbin turns his attention to some of the mind-bendingly improbable truths of science. For example:
We know that the Universe had a beginning, and when it was - and also that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. We can detect ripples in space that are one ten-thousandth the width of a proton, made by colliding black holes billions of light years from Earth.
And, most importantly from our perspective, all complex life on Earth today is descended from a single cell - but without the stabilising influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have evolved.
Timely and important tour d''horizon of the current state of human bio-enhancement Sure to get huge press coverage For anyone fascinated by TV''s Black Mirror or the hit film Ex-Machina
B>''Gets right to the heart of what makes us what we are. Read it!'' Angela Saini, author of i>Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race Science/i>/b>div>b>br> /b>/div> div>b>The popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are?/b>/div> div>br> /div> div>Popular science master Brian Clegg''s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you.
From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be./div> div>br> /div> div>It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they got to you in space and time, the sources of things you consume, how the living cells of your body developed, where your massive brain and consciousness originated, how human beings evolved and, ultimately, what your personal genetic history reveals./div>
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. This title dispels the pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. It shows how old myths, dressed up in the scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo. It reveals the mind's plasticity, and shows the influence of culture on identity.
Does for Poland what i>The Year of Living Danishly/i> did for Denmark.div>br> /div> div>Incredibly topical in the year of Brexit.
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From author of the popular and acclaimed Inflight Science and The Universe Inside You - extremely approachable, enjoyable popular science Perfect non-fiction for fans of Luke Rhinehart''s The Dice Man The proof, at last, that we do all live in a random and irrational universe...
Brian Clegg is a recognised author of enjoyable, accessible popular science - Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You and Dice World Ideal for fans of Manjit Kumar''s Quantum and Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw''s The Quantum Universe ''His best book yet!'' John Gribbin
Incredibly powerful and glittering writing on some of the best-known female performers in rock and pop Perfect for fans of books by Viv Albertine, Kim Gordon, Tracey Thorn or John Carder Bush''s forthcoming Kate Bush biography From a star array of often young up-and-coming authors with impeccable literary connections and credentials
A pop-science treat.'' Gavin Francis The first popular book on the subject - and with numerous press angles, sure to receive huge attention From a rising star of science writing - a Cambridge zoologist who is also a professional actor. Brilliant video at bit.ly/restlessvid
A brilliant biography in the vein of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning The Pike Full of the colour and verve of 19th-century Paris Already the recipient of a Biographer''s Club Prize and a Society of Authors grant
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Spy the Lie From former CIA agents, revealing the hidden techniques to - ethically - coerce someone to say what they really think.
Ideal reading for anyone in business - especially selling or marketing
The master of popular science writing'' (Sunday Times) on an incredible year for modern physics - 1915 ''An absorbing and readable account of Einstein''s life and work'' BBC Sky at Night Set to become a staple of any good popular science bookshop shelf
P>strong >At a time when that 1960s notion of air travel as decadent and exceptional is experiencing an unexpected revival, this book ... could be the G&T in a plastic glass you need.'' /strong>strong>em>The Spectator/em>/strong>/p> p>strong>Travel writer Julia Cooke''s exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era./strong>/p> p>em>Come Fly the World/em> tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 1966 and 1975 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage./p> p>Alongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. Cooke''s storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life./p> p>In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved./p>
